Germany plans to create a national financial crime authority with the aim of effectively fighting white-collar crime, vigorously enforcing sanctions and overcoming its reputation as a money-laundering hub. A central element of the plan is to bundle the most important… Read More ›
Despite two recent high profile out-of-court settlements involving major Dutch banks, some of the Netherland’s supervisors still heavily rely on informal enforcement actions and warning letters according to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). In its Mutual Evaluation Report Netherlands-2022,… Read More ›
Global banks and businesses face unprecedented challenges in applying sanctions, export controls, and prohibitions against providing certain services to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, according to a white paper published by Thomson Reuters. Entitled The fog… Read More ›
Trade finance for transactions with Turkey could be restricted amidst mounting alarm in western capitals over Ankara’s deepening ties with Moscow forged last week when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The leaders agreed to… Read More ›
Six banks operating in the UAE have been fined for failing to comply with the OECD’s Multilateral Administrative Agreement for Automatic Exchange of Information and Common Reporting Standard (CRS) according to a Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) statement. The… Read More ›
The EU Council has adopted further sanctions against Russia, effectively banning its most significant export after energy – Russian gold. It has also introduced new measures to prevent circumvention of sanctions by ships and extends the list of dual-use and advanced… Read More ›
New research by one of the world’s leading providers of vessel-tracking, sanctions screening and regulatory solutions endeavours to explain why banks, financial organisations, carriers, and shippers in the UK and Switzerland are losing out on big opportunities in green finance… Read More ›
Sanctioned Russian individuals are using a range of methods, including trade-based money laundering (TBML), to evade sanctions imposed on them following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine according to financial intelligence sources consulted by the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT)…. Read More ›